DeGeneres posted the picture on Twitter and
Twitter promptly went crazy; it was retweeted 80,000 times in
three minutes. In less than an hour it had far-outstripped the
previous most retweeted image, a photo of Barack and Michelle
Obama embracing after the 2012 election with the caption "Four
More Years."

To be fair, the Obama photo wasn't a selfie. At the time of this
writing, the Oscar selfie has been retweeted over 2.7 million
times while Obama's "Four More Years" has received just fewer
than 800,000 retweets.